e, 71 _et seq._
--laughable examples of, 72 _et seq._
--tragic results of, 75
--examples of, in Men of the Time, 76.

Printing press, private, an appalling form of bibliomania, 293
--possession of, by Sir Alexander Boswell, 294.

Professional dealer, the, 107.

Prowler different from auction-haunter, 88 _et seq._

Prynne and his Histrio-Mastix, 129 _et seq._

Publishers and good literature, 262.

Quaker collector of paintings, a, anecdote of, 103.

Queen Cadyow and St Kentigern, 394.

Rambles in search of sculptured stones, 411 _et seq._

Rarity, the comparative, of certain books, 170 _et seq._
--Americans and the rarity of books, 173 _et seq._
--rarity of works of early English printers, 218 _et seq._
--rarity increased by increased number of copies, 282.

Ratcliffe, Dr, a physician, 69 _note_.

Reading of books by book-hunters and possessors of libraries, 109
--impossible in certain cases, 110
--ought to be desultory, _ib. et seq._

"Reading with the fingers" a test of scholarship, 116.

Religion and politics in reference to the preservation of literature,
208.

Religious hypocrites, uncharitableness and intolerance of, 7
--their development into criminals, 8.

Reminiscences of a book-hunting life, 59 _et seq._

"Remnants," or broken books, 254.

Rent-paying in Scotland, 140 _note_.

Resuscitated literature, peculiar value of, 324
--objected to in hagiology, 359.

Richard of Bury, Bishop of Durham, as a private collector, 199 _et seq._
--as a benefactor of posterity, 200 _et seq._
--originator of Durham College Library, the nucleus of Trinity of
Oxford, 203
--on the treatment of manuscripts (quotation from the Philobiblion),
220 _note_.

Ritson, Joseph, opponent of John Pinkerton, 287 _et seq._
--his peculiarities, 288 _et seq._

Robespierre, draft of decree before, concerning the public libraries of
Paris, 209.

Romans as introducers of Christianity into Great Britain, 360, 379
--as slighters of history, 360 _et seq._

Rout upon Rout, by Felix Nixon, 57.

Roxburghe Club, 97, 265 _et seq._
--its origin, 268
--its dinner and toasts, 269
--its members, 270
--its "revels," 275
--Hazlewood's connection with, _ib._ and _note et seq._
--reprinting by, of ancient books, 278 _et seq._
--its first serious efforts, 279